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"But, granting an undiminished benevolence to exist on the part both of the landlord and the agent, yet can we expect any great exertion of pathetic eloquence to proceed from the latter to palliate any deficiency of the tenants? or, if there were, do we not know how much lighter an impression is made by distresses related to us than by those which are 'oculis subjecta fidelibus?
"Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem Quam quae sunt occulis subjecta fidelibus. "For he says, immediately after, "Non tamen intus Digna, geri promes in scenam, Multaque tolles Ex occulis, quae mox narret facundia praesens. "Among which 'many, he recounts some, "Nec pueros coram populo MEDEA trucidet, Aut in avem PROGNE mutetur, CADMUS in anguem, &c.
“Segniús irritant animos demissa per aurem Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus, et quæ Ipsi sibi tradit spectator.” De Ar. Poe., 180.
Kneeling, with blanched faces and outstretched hands, they supplicated. "San Pantaleone!" Then, at the church door, in the midst of the smoke of two censers, Don Consolo appeared, resplendent in a violet chasuble, with gold embroidery. He held aloft the sacred arm of silver, and conjured the air, shouting the Latin words: "Ut fidelibus tuis aeris serenitatem concedere digneris.
It is not that they can not thoroughly appreciate rectitude of feeling, brilliancy of conversation, and distinguished talent; but remember the hackneyed quotation: Segnius irritant animum demissa per aures, Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus.
Segnius irritant you know! What disciple of old Plunkett's will ever forget the difference between the demissa per aurem, and "quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus!" I have always maintained that his illustration of this great principle gave Dickens the hint of his Dotheboy's Hall.
Afflictus rerum nostrarum status nos movit, ut fidelibus perchari regni Hungariæ statibus de hostili provinciæ nostræ hereditariæ, Austriæ invasione, et imminente regno huic periculo, adeoque de considerando remedio propositionem scrïpto facíamus.
I can't go hanging things round my neck like King Coffee Calcalli, or the Emperor of Blue China. But soon it will not be difficult for me to avoid my Lord: for "Sic desideriis icta fidelibus Quærit patria Cæsarem." He still smiles when we meet; and I don't think any the less of him because he was called "Bumble" at school and afterwards made Governor of Bombay.
Aut agitur res in Scenis aut acta refertur: Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem; Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus, et quae Ipse sibi tradit spectator. By which, he directly declares his judgement, "That every thing makes more impression Presented, than Related." Nor, indeed, can any one rationally assert the contrary.
We mean not to deny that there is something in this objection. It might even seem to plead the authority of Scripture in its favour "He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen ?" And it was indeed no new remark in Horace's days, Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus.
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